The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-10-06
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.


Gladstone has decideded to make his
Irish policy known in the near future.
+ A race between the Thistle, Puritan,
Priscilla, Atlantic and other sloops is
talked of.
Commissioner of Education Dawson in
his report says there are 1000 school
children in Alaska.
Spalding refuses to allow Detroit and
st. Louis to play q world s championship
game on the Chicago grounds.
The building trades of Chicago have
decided to strike next Monday If scab
workmen are employed on the Haymar-
ket5 theater. &
The Mississippi Water Power and Bo ON
company's logs that were run out of Pine
river are damned ON the Rabbit rapids,
twelve miles above Brainerd. Teams
have been sent up to haul them over.
Hon. NJ " Miller, president of the
the board of regents of the Dakota agri-
cultural college at Bookings, who re-
Gently disappeared, had none of the col
lege money in his possession, as at first
reported. n .frfzs. E..s4s i. rs.--,s s; ;
Louise Michel, the famous French
communist, has become insane, and is
hooted and ill-treated when she attempts
to speak, and the publishers refuse to
print her books. AS her pen and tongue
have both failed her, she is likely to
Starye. Il gs-.,; gssF f.. .-t.sE
James Redman, prominent lumberman
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, was killed by a
falling tree while experimenting camp
near Phillips. He leaves wife and
family. - .'>-
The collector of internal revenue at
Chicago, as custodian of the government
building, has determined to decorate that
establishment during the encampment at
his own expense. He has sent to Phila
delphia for flags for the purpose.
There is a vacancy in the office of Amer
lean consul at Stuttgart. Mr.. Charles p.
Kimball, of Chicago, who has held the
place, sent his resignation to Secretary
Bayard, and left for home. The salary is
81, 500 year, and work enough for health
full exercise.
A big billiard tournament between
Sexton, Slosson, DAILY, Carter, and Shaef-
fer has been arranged. The match is to
be played in two series, the first in New
York in November, and the second in
Chicago in December. The game will be
cushion caroms. .- .~....-. .-..
Corea has appointed a minister to the
United States.
Advices from Yokohama up to Sept. 9
announce the arrival at that place of ex-
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. -. 49,.
The New York Yacht club will honor
Gen. Paine, owner of the Volunteer, by a
grand reception. The members of the
club are wild over the performance of the
Volunteer, and think there is nothing too
good for its fortunate owner. ..
Drivers and conductors on two street
car lines in Detroit, discharged for theft,
caused serious riot by attacking the
new men, and causing the horses to run
away. q
Work on the Duluth harbor for the
season has been stopped. The total
amount of material excavated was $685.
322 cubic yards. ...- ..
The ,000-mile bicycle race from Bos-
ton to Chicago has been abandoned. The
race was to have been participated in by
ten or twelve representative wheelmen,
and all the principal American machines
were to be represented. .- ...
All the railroads have agreed to special
rates varying from one and one-third to
one and one-flfth cents per mile during
the last week of the Minneapolis exposi-
ton, which commences Oct. II and ends
Oct. 10. These days will include presi-
dents day, woman's day, labor day, and
the final closing day.
The Volunteer left New York for
Marblehead. She was made the recipient
of salutes from all the harbor craft till
out OF sight.
Miss Sarah Jewett, formerly leading
lady at Union Square theater, New York,
applied for money from the INDECENT ac-
tors fund Wednesday. '.-..
Late reports confirm the showing of the
earlier returns which indicatee that pro-
hibition had been defeated in Tennessee
by about %, 900 majority.
The general land office commissioner
recommends that the claim for land by
the Northern Pacific as being within the
second indemnity belt be Cancelled.
In the opinion of intelligent railroad
men it seems there is to be permanent
and radical lowering of rates on freight
traffic between Chicago and the Missouri
river. ..a. ..s . p. F. ..-2.... ..-.-..-.
The Canadian passenger propeller CAL
ifornia was wrecked off st. Helena in
Lake Michigan. Seven of the crew reached
Point Les Barbes. The rest of the crew
and passengers, numberingten, are miss
ing, '. ... -. .-..if.- " a.-E t..'-i '